キルヒドルフの天然記念物・トップ14

A dead-ice basin is a dry, swampy, or water-filled depression formed by the melting of dead ice. Blocks of ice that break away from the glacier tongue during melting and remain there are called dead ice. Dead-ice basins in which a water-retaining layer has developed, or whose steep slopes sometimes extend below the groundwater level, are water-filled, swampy, or boggy. Their funnel shape allowed rain and meltwater to collect. These small bodies of water have experienced varying degrees of siltation and moor development, even within the same basin. The range of vegetation formations is very broad. It ranges from small reed beds to large sedge marshes, small sedge marshes, quaking grasslands, floating leaf and aquatic vegetation, transitional bogs, and even black alder swamps. Source: https://www.toteiskessel.de/uber-toteiskessel/was-ist-ein-toteiskessel/

According to legend, after the Battle of Hohenlinden on December 3, 1800, a mounted soldier fled from the victorious French into the forest. On the swampy forest floor, horse and rider threatened to sink, but were miraculously saved. A spring gushed out where the wildly kicking horse hit solid ground. The rider wrote down the story of his rescue and deposited it in a hollow log in the clearing. The water from the spring has been considered healing ever since.

It's always nice to come here. A quiet peaceful place.

The Joseph chapel a little above the Lourdes grotto is the largest chapel in the parish, built in 1609. In the secularization (1803) it was released for demolition or auctioning. Was bought by Hofwirt Lechner and made available to the parish again.

As early as 1899, the Haag Beautification Association opened the Glacier Garden as the first in southern Germany. It has been in the oak grove since 2019. There a large board provides information about the Inntal Glacier, which has carried various rocks into this region like a large "conveyor belt". The boulders are sanded on the top, you can see the structure of the rock and in some even fossils.

The Lourdes grotto with rock scenery and prayer house was created in 1901 by the sculptor Max Heilmaier (1869-1923). Born in Isen, he helped shape the Munich Angel of Peace. May services, for example, take place at the grotto. Unfortunately the benches were removed.

There are cups to drink. But maybe it would be good to bring your own 😉

A place to relax 😃